Mary-Anne Musonda was born on 4 August 1991 and is a Zimbabwean cricketer and the current captain of the women's national cricket team.
27 Facts About Mary-Anne Musonda
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Mary-Anne Musonda is a right-handed batter and an off-beak bowler.
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Mary-Anne Musonda has a master's degree in Development Finance from the University of Cape Town.
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At high school, Mary-Anne Musonda participated in a lot of sports.
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Mary-Anne Musonda started out bowling pace, but later switched to off spin after suffering an injury.
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Less than a year after Mary-Anne Musonda took up cricket, her school established a girls' team, and some of its members competed in provincial trials.
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Mary-Anne Musonda was included in a probable, but unofficial, 13 for the national women's team squad.
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Mary-Anne Musonda went on her first tour as part of the national team in 2006.
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Between finishing her bachelor's degree and starting her master's course, Mary-Anne Musonda looked unsuccessfully for a job in Zimbabwe.
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For both of those tournaments, Mary-Anne Musonda was recruited by the Rhinos team.
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Mary-Anne Musonda had a more prominent role in the next Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier, held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in February 2017.
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Mary-Anne Musonda was the highest run-scorer for Zimbabwe, with 113 runs.
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In December 2018, Mary-Anne Musonda, who had not participated in the Africa qualifiers in which Zimbabwe had been eliminated by Uganda from the World Cup, was appointed as the captain of the team, replacing Chipo Mugeri.
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Mary-Anne Musonda considers the highlight of captaincy to be continuously finding ways of making adequate decisions.
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Mary-Anne Musonda topped the overall batting table for that tour, with an aggregate of 140 at an average of 70.
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Mary-Anne Musonda was then to have led the team on a tour of Ireland and the Netherlands in July 2019, but that tour was cancelled at the last minute after the ICC moved to freeze all funding to Zimbabwe.
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Mary-Anne Musonda considers Zimbabwe's exclusion from that tournament to be the worst moment of her career; the ICC ban on Zimbabwe was lifted after only three months, but soon afterwards the COVID-19 pandemic began.
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In February 2021, Mary-Anne Musonda was named as the captain of Zimbabwe's squad for its home 50-over and T20I series against Pakistan, which were scheduled as the national team's first matches since the onset of the pandemic.
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In October 2021, Mary-Anne Musonda was named as the captain of Zimbabwe's WODI squad for their four-match series against Ireland.
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Mary-Anne Musonda made her WODI debut on 5 October 2021, against Ireland.
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Zimbabwe won the match by four wickets, with Mary-Anne Musonda scoring an unbeaten century, and sharing in three half-century stands.
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Mary-Anne Musonda was only the sixth woman to score a century on ODI debut, the first ever to do so while captaining her team, and the first to score any international century for Zimbabwe.
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In November 2021, Mary-Anne Musonda was named as the captain of Zimbabwe's team for the 2021 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier tournament in Zimbabwe.
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Mary-Anne Musonda had defended a ball from Janet Mbabazi which then rebounded towards her stumps, then gently hit the ball back to Mbabazi while remaining in her crease at all times.
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Mary-Anne Musonda has played basketball for the Vixens in the Harare Basketball League.
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Mary-Anne Musonda is interested in development issues, specifically for African girls and women.
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Mary-Anne Musonda is involved in literacy and numeracy interventions for children in junior schools in remote areas of Zimbabwe.